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This painting started off, like some others, as an experiment of sorts. I did the drawing with a black oil pastel, then thought about filling in the colours with colourful oil pastels as well but then I opted for acrylics…
Mixing mediums is not something I like and one must be very careful about mixing anything with oils as oils take long to dry…
Then I used a photograph to create a digital image in tones of black and white. However the original painting, on canvas, will be in colours and since it is “evolving” I really don’t know what the actual colours will be at the end. Now bear in mind that this is not the result of an intuitive approach but rather it is improvisation, one of the tenets of JaZzArT.
Well, this one takes me back to the ninth grade! Wow! Getting the first drags…did I say drags?…of the seventies! Sine I was more into Bowie, Beatles, Stones and other British bands, I think I first heard of The Grateful Dead…and this song…back in 1971 and loved it! I had just gotten a new guitar and I immediately learned this one! Of course I wasn’t riding that train, and I wasn’t high on cocaine, (a drug I have never touched – don’t do drugs, drugs be bad), but I did get to like The Grateful Dead, although I was way too young to be a Dead Head…
So here is my first tune for Sundays Tunes (of course on day except Sunday):
(On Workingman’s Dead 1970)
«Casey Jones» was played in every Dead concert from 1969 to 1974, a total of 300 times! It was written by Jerry Garcia (music) and lyrics by Robert Hunter.
I was a big, huge fan back in the mid eighties and early 1990’s. In Spain there was Simply Red fever, especially after Stars. One of my favourite songs, which came way before that, was «Holding Back the Years» from 1985…
(1993)
In any event, this was…and is…a marvellous group from Manchester, England, who did a little soul, jazz, pop, and blue eyed soul. Hell, they even did some reggae and rock and have sold over 55 million records.
I know they’ve a lot of fans here and in the US as well. So, I am posting their concert in La Habana, Cuba at the Grand Theatre of La Habana. The orchestra and the dancers are Cuban artists. And the theatre is amazing. I had the pleasure of visiting in 2016 and I was impressed. Of course, this incredible building was built in the days when La Habana was considered among the first five most beautiful cities in the world (Paris, London, Buenos Aires, New York). Now Havana (in English) is number 28 in the ranking of the top 50 cities of the world. It is one interesting place to visit.
(photo from the Guardian)
I hope you enjoy the concert. I know, it is longer than listening to just one song, but if you enjoy the music of Simply Red, you will enjoy this video.
Llegamos a otra de las vanguardias del Siglo XX, el hiperrealismo. Esta, que para mi no es mas que una técnica, me es extremadamente aburrida porque todo nace de una foto y yo prefiero ver la foto que un cuadro que imita, a la perfección, una foto. Ahora, también diré que algunos artistas hiperrealistas si han tratado de añadirle algo de emoción a sus retratos y otros, como el australiano Ron Mueck, que esculpa figuras extremadamente desproporcionadas y hacen que la experiencia de observarlas sea un tanto mas interesante. Pero bueno, vosotros al vídeo que está bueno…
As we continue on through Art History, we visit another of the vanguards of he XX C. This one is, to me of course, extremely boring and I am referring to Hyperrealism, not today’s presentation, which is metarealism beyond all limits. The reason I say hyperrealism is boring is because I would rather look at a real photograph rather than a painting that is identical to a photograph. I would always go for the real thing. Now, I have to say that there are some hyper-realist artists that do find something interesting to actually paint, like an expression of an emotion in a portrait. And the grotesqueness of painting/sculpting a figure way beyond its normal proportions as is the case with Australian sculptor Ron Mueck, can be amusing, albeit minimally. But you guys, look at the video. It’s a good one…
JaZzArt en València 